What You Need to Know Before Voting on Facebook's Proposed Policy Changes This Week

WonderHowTo

Dec. 5, 2012, 5:46 PM

A few weeks ago, Facebook published a blog post called "Proposed Updates to our Governing Documents," which outlines a few changes in their policies and user voting system. These changes would essentially take away users' right to vote on future changes to Facebook's data use policy while also taking away Facebook's responsibility to alert users of those changes. If the new policy is enacted, the vote will be replaced with "a system that leads to more meaningful feedback and engagement," whatever that means. In all fairness, previous attempts to get user feedback through the voting system have... more